Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 205
"See what a hurry they are in," said Little Claus, "they are longing to get down again."
Who acts: birds, Little · What happens: see, be, say, long, get down · To what, where: hurry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, Little), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 hurry | det |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hurry | det |
| 5 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 See | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 in | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 in | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 hurry | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Little | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 longing | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 longing | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 longing | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 longing | aux |
| 18 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 longing | xcomp |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 longing | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 longing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | infinitive | what hurry | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hurry=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | birds = bird | what hurry not said here | in property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Little | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | long in a quote | present · progressive | birds = bird | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get down not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | again | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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